The Greencastle Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1895 — Page 3

A WESTERN WOOING.

BY KATE M. CLEARY.

Poop!.' had l>ccoim.‘ rather tired of the roaianee. Perhaps in part because 1 it had ceased to be romantic. When tirst An lulasia Stebbins had come out from Illinois to live with her mother and stepfather on the Nebraska prairie I it was considered by the neighboring farmer f >lk quite proper, probable and desirable that Ira Harris, whose halfsection 3 >ined that of her relatives, should fall in love with her—which he promptly did. Ira was thirty, stout, stolid, loutish, methodical. He was a successful man. This is hardly to be explained of a person with the characteristics mentioned unless one includes selfishness. To be supremely selfish is so frequently to be successful. At the time of their meeting Andulasia was ticenty-scven. There are women of twenty-seven and women of twcnty-urrrn. She was one of the latter. With her square figure, her unequivocal complexion, her dull brown hair, and her calculating eyes she looked her years. One would never excuse her mistakes on the ground of immaturity. One could never condone them on that of impulse. Indeed, to attribute to her certain errors would be subtle ilattery. She was not the kind of a woman who is ordinarily subjected to temptation. Harris, however, accepted her propinquity and her affection much as he accepted the drought or the price of hogs. He was willing she should decline the company of other men on his account. He reasoned that if her stepfather, old man Solveriny, were to clear off the mortgage on his place and die, and if the two sickly young Solverinys died also, she would be wealthy in her own right, as wealth is estimated in the Philistine west. Consequently it might prove a prudent proceeding to wait for Andulasia. So he waited. A year after their acquaintance began he gave her an inkling of liis sentiments. Her concurrence with his views was almost pathetic. It was alert, reciprocal, conclusive. Matrimony at some indefinite date they might look forward to. Such an indiscretion at the present time would be a tremendous mistake. “Of course, Ira," she said, “laud’s land. And if my stepfather and your mother—who is mighty feeble, I notice— and the twins don’t die there won’t be any land for us worth mentioning, much less a-marryin’ on.” Nevertheless she felt as the years, two, three, four passed, that her acceptance of his suggestion had been a triih' overemphatic and unconsidered. Pate, she could not in justice rail against. One of the twins succumbed to ivy poisoning. The other, a few months later, was run down by the train. Andulasia’s stepfather went the way of the apoplectic, and Ira’s mother, with utter disregard for the sensation she might have caused, slipped from life in the most meek, genteel and unimpressive manner imaginable. Then there was only Ira on one farm, and Andulasia and her mother on the other. No apparent obstacle intervened. Still Ira did not speak, and it was seven years since Andulasia had come from Illinois. He frequently visited her, helped her, and deferred to her. He carried her butter and eggs into town and “traded” them: when the circus was in the county seat, he drove her there; lie took her into the'side show where the fat woman was on exhibition: he bought her pink lemonade, and peanuts, and hot candy made on the grounds. He escorted her to the merry-go-round at Mahaska and rode side by side with her on the spotted ponies. He drove her into town twice a week. They attended prayer meeting together. They noth professed religion at the revival. He bought eleven tiekots for her crazy TUilt raffle. He was in all things her constant and dependable cavalier, but he never once mentioned marriage— never once. In this manner eight more years passed. She was forty-two. He was forty-five. He was stouter, more stolid. She had some wrinkles, gold fillings in her teeth, a reputation for irascibility—also a comfortab’e bank account. One day Ira brought Andulasia a letter. It was from her mother's brother who lived in Iowa. He was dying. He wished to see her. She handed Ira the letter. “Shall I go?" she asked. Harris deliberated. “Has he money?” he questioned. "Yes.'’ “Then go.” He saw her off the next day. She wore a new dress that didn’t tit iu the back. The skirt was too short at the sides. Her shoes were dusty. The heat had taken the curl out of her bangs. Slie had forgotten to bring the piece of chamois skin with the powder on it. which she was in the habit of using surreptitiously. Her nose shone as if polished. She wore kid gloves which were too large. The train was late. As they walked up and down the platform she talked to Ira steadily an,d monotonously. She warned him about the brindle cow, and advised him concerning a piece of his fence which needed repairing. He heard her, but all the time he was watching a girl who played with the agent's children in a green patch near the station. She was a little blonde sprite who had come from Omaha to visit the agent’s wife. “Of course,” he said. “And you won’t forget about the chopped feed?” He gave her an intense glance. “How could I?” “You’ll see that Star gets well watered?” “I'll attend to it.” “You’ll have Alvy Markham pull parsley for the young pigs?” “I will.” “And—O, yes! If mother seems to feel another fit coming on you'll get her a bottle of Indian relief cure at the drug store.” The train steamed in. Andulasia went awa.v. ira did not kiss her. She

was relieved—and disappointed. Th«. conductor and the train boy might have laughed. Hut then he should have cared enough to risk that. When the train had pulled out and was well around the bend, Harris, who had lingered on the platform, asked the agent to introduce him to his visitor. The agent did so. Harris joined in the games of the children. He mado himself clumsily delightful. Soda water was unknown in that particular small town, but Ira did the next best tiling. He bought bananas and chocolate drops with a reckless liberality which would have made the absent Andalusia doubt his sanity could site but have been aware of his behavior. He came to the depot the next day, the next and the next. The little visitor with the flax-flower eyes and yellow hair smiled divinely. “The children,” she [confided to the agent's wife, “are having such a good time. It is all great fun.” She even thought it was great fun when she went buggy riding with Mr. Harris. “Take me past your farm,” she commanded. He grew red with ecstasy at the request. He explained apologetically many conditions of his property as they drove by. Three weeks passed—four. Harris had several letters from Iowa. The contents of the letters were chiefly relative to hogs, and pasturage, and baled hay, and discounts. Ira did not actually dread Andulasia's return, but he would have preferred to postpone it indefinitely. To bo sure, they had considered tlie possibility of an engagement once, but he had never been really engaged to her. He never could be now. It was only right stic should understand that. Shu was a sensible woman. She would understand that in such a matter a man had a right to please himself. As for Alys, was there ever such an eye, such a hand, such a voice, such a foot, such a smile. To be sure he bad once met Alys walking home from church with the lumberman. Hut then the lumberman Was only young and good looking. It was well known he was conducting the yard for an English firm on a salary. To compare Vail to him—Harris—who \ sso‘'well fixed!” There could be no comparison. One evening in late summer, when Ira was jogging into town, ho settled mentally all minor matters to his satisfaction. He decided to whom ho would rent his farm, the kind of house he would build in town, the direction his wedding journey would take, tho brotherly letter he would leave for Andulasia, and the invitation he would send tlie lumberman to be present at his wedding. He dismounted at the post office, which was also the general store and tin shop. There was a letter for him —a letter from Andulasia. “Deaii Ira: Tblngs Is all upset Uncle John died a wreck ago. They can't And no will, and I'm tired waiting tor dead men s stockings. Meet mo night after to-morrow. Your "AXbULASlA STCUUIXB.'’ Harris smiled curiously as he stuffed the letter in his pocket. He was thinking of the Omaha girl. The next night Andulasia arrived. She was fatter than ever. Her Eton suit was crumpled. She wore a shirt waist. It was voluminous and not immaculate. “Well, it's you, Ira. I’m clean beat. Put them tilings in the buggy while 1 get some sody and yeast up-town.” “Up-town” Miss Stebbins learned several things, cliief of which was that Ira Harris had transferred his affections to Miss Alys Lane. Half way home Andulasia said quietly: “I hear you reckon to marry Miss Lane.” Her composure, the loss of her expected fortune, the witchery of Alys, all gave Harris courage. “I -I was iiggerin’ some on it,” lie avowed. He drove Andulasia to her home, but she did not again broach the subject. lie went back to town that evening. He met Alys at an ice-cream sociable. He gained grace of heart and proposed. She laughed gently. “1 am honored, Mr. Harris, of course,” she said. “Hut I always supposed you were engaged to Miss Stebbins. I am to marry Mr. Vail at Christmas." The following evening, Ira, feeling exceedingly depressed, went to call on Andulasia. He foundher talking with a brother farmer, a widower with three children. He asked to speak to her a moment alone. "Pact is, Andulasia,” he said, “it’s you I want. I fancied for awhile I'd like that silly little thing. I must have been kind of hj-pternized. I'm sure now it's you I want.” Andulasia smiled—a peculiar smile. 'T’ve just promised to marry Mr. Muggs. He asked me last night before he found out what you know.” "What I know? Andulasia!” “Yes. Tlie news that come in on the noon train, about the will being found, and me getting seven thousand dollars, and—” “Andulasia!" What a tine woman she was. Why had he never noticed that fact before? “It’s true!” she declared triumphantly. “Hut,” he fairly howled, “I've been meaning for fifteen years to marry you, Andulasia!” “Then, why didn't you?” inquired Andulasia. He remembered some lines ho had once read. It would be quite safe to repeat them as original, for Andulasia never read anything. “I feared my fate too much,” he protested, striking his breast dramatically, “and my deserts was too small!" He did not impress Andulasia. She turned scornfully away to where Mr. Muggs waited. “Co back,” she counseled, “to that yeller-haired girl at the depot.” He did go back, but not to the depot. “Eh?” said the saloonkeeper. “We don't often see you, Mr. Harris.” “No. Hut I feel to-night us if I'd got a chill. I'll take some straight." —Chicago Tribune.

INCREASED EXPORTS. PrnAprrlty Krturnlne Through the Drmorrath' TarllT. Among the other facts unmistakably showing the revival of business is an increase in our export trade. New York merchants within the past few days have been commenting upon this, and the reason they assign for it is a remarkable illustration of the solidarity of the commercial nations of the world. It has pleased a certain school of American politicians for many years past to represent international commerce as analogous to war. They have held out the idea that when one nation gains anything from trade another necessarily loses. They have treated imports as a calamity, and exports alone ns worthy of consideration. They have quite ignored the fact that international commerce is mainly an exchange of commodities, and that if a nation does not buy it cannot sell. Occasionally exceptions to this rule may be noted, but it is incontestably true in the long run. There is no nation that can go on for years exporting commodities without importing others to pay for them, for the simple reason that other nations cannot go on paying for their imports in money, for in a few years they would have no money left. As a rule, imports must be paid for by exports. Hence when imports increase exports must increase in a similar ratio. The protection papers have been making a great outcry about the increase of our imports for the past fiscal year, comparing them with the panic period that extended from July 1, 1893, to June 30, 1894. Our imports then were small because our ability to purchase was limited. Much has been said about the large increase of imports of woolens during the fiscal year just closed. In the first ten months of tlie fiscal year ended on the 30th ult. our imports of woolens were of the value of nearly thirty millions of dollars, whicli was in excess of those for the corresponding months in the preceding fiscal year, lienee the howls to which we have referred. Hut if we go hack another year we find tho imports of

GOOD TIMES AGAIN. A Pointed Suggeotloji for tho LltUe Napoleon of rrotertlon. Gov. McKinley is not paying much attention to tho financial question in his speeches. The burden of his theme is protection and tho tariff, and lie also professes great sympathy for the laboi^ ing man. He talks about work for idle hands, wages for men who have families to support, and markets for our surplus products. Such a minor question as the nature of the money medium may bo left to .solve itself. We want prosperity more than we want anything else, he says. The governor should put his ear tc "die ground. He would hear the rumbling of higher wages all over the country for the men for whom he has so much sympathy; he would hear the satisfaction of the farmer expressed at the higher prices he receives for his produce; and the evidence that from the Atlantic to tho Pacific industry and trade are rapidly, healthfully and legitimately reviving would lie brought home to him in a manner most convincing. The contents of tlie strong boxes of the manufacturer, the investor,and the holder of securities are being augmented, and from them labor is getting a fair proportion. The business in Now York city is something unprecedented within the last three years, and the wages of thousands of workingmen are increased materially. The dry goods trade is much better than a year ago, and tho demand for structural iron is greater than it has been in years past. There lias been a sharp increase in the shipbuilding industry and a belief that tho advance in work is to continue. Pittsburgh iron and steel works are iu full blast and crowded with orders. Coke ovens in the Connellsviile district are in operation, and many thousand men who have been idle have found work at fair wages. Vany window plate glass manufactories are working to their capacity. lievival of building operations enables them to do business with profit. Wool prices are on tlie increase and tlie leather trade is active, the boot and shoe industry fairly booming. There i:i a marked improvement in the milling business.

PROPHECY AND FACTS. Protect ionUt FmIkc I’roplietg That Are Without Honor. It is hardly a year since tire democratic tariff act was passed, and it if therefore easy to recall tlie prophecies which that measure called forth from its opponents. They have not passed out of mind. It seems but yesterday, indeed, that with one voice the supporters of MeKinleyism were predicting woe and ruin to follow the disturbance of tlie monopolists’ tariff, warning workingmen of the reduction of their wages to a level with those of the "pauper labor” of Europe, and mourning over the extinction of manufacturing industries in America. There was much in the situation at that time to give color to these dismal prophecies; tha people were still in the dumps; confidence had not recovered from the severe blow dealt by the panic of 1893, and a good many credulous persons really believed that the business depression and disaster under which tlie land was suffering hail their cause in the fear that the McKinley tariff would be disturbed. So it was that the prophecies of disaster to follow a change in the tariff was boldly made, the prophets being sure of at least a momentary credit in the existing temper of the people and getting at least a temporary political advantage in the influence of this feeling upon the elections of 1894. There is no doubt the recovery of business was retarded in some degree by the malevolent efforts of the croakers. Hut not all the false prophets in the world can prevent natural causes from producing their natural results; and in spite of the prophecies of evil to follow the operation of the new tariff the recovery began and has continued to the present time with the bright prospect of reaching the highest standard of prosperity ever known in this favored country. Instead of fading away, industry has revived in every brunch. Instead of decreasing, the wages of labor have risen all over the land. Instead of falling off under the competition of foreign prices, domestic products have risen In value in our own markets while at tlie same time they have found new- markets in foreign countries. All this has come about under the operation of the tariff which, less than twelve months ago, the prophets of MeKinleyism in chorus predicted waa to ruin business and starve the workmen. Compare the facts of to-day with the predictions of last summer, and what a contrast appears! The great work of industrial production was never more active, and the revival lias come entirely within these few months. Mills which have been idle for years have started up; hundreds of thousands of workmen have again begun to earn regular wages; the standard of pay and of production has been raised. And this is the answer which the facts of 1895 give to the prophecies of 1894.— Augusta (Me.) New Age.

COMPETE WITH ENGLAND.

woolens for the corresponding period amounted to thirty-three millions and a half. In other words, wo are not yet importing so many woolens as we were before the panic under the McKinley bill, which tends to show that the return of prosperity is not complete, as we know well enough from other sources. We have alluded incidentally to the reasons assigned by New York merchants for the improvement of the export trade. The) say that the higher prices paid by us for many foreign commodities, such as hides, have increased the purchasing power of other countries, and thereby enable them to buy more from us. Then, too, the consequences of the Raring failure are passing away abroad, as those of our panic are doing here. The whole world, with the exception of China, Japan and Cuba, is on the up grade, and it is expected that our export trade this year will be very large. These views show how silly and baseless is the calamity howl raised over the increase of imports. We are taking more goods from abroad because with the passing of depression our purchasing power lias increased. In like manner tlie purenasing power of most other countries has been augmented, and they are taking more of our goods than they have heretofore simply because they have now found themselves able to pay for more. This does not mean less sales by domestic producers, but increased consumption and more comfort for all classes. I’rofits may be less in many cases, but this disadvantage is offset by increased sales. The moral of this is that foreign commerce is a good thing for all, and that the prosperity of one nation is shared by all the others that trade with it. On the other hand, depression in one country extends to others, or at any rate has a tendency to reduce their trade. The long depression in the commercial world seems now to be approaching an end, and all countries will get a share of the improvement.— Louisville Courier-Journal.

with good prospects for a continuance In short, the belief is general that tho country is rapidly climbing up ths ladder of prosperity.—Detroit Free Press. REPUBLICAN COWARDICE.

Contemptible Slleneo of Die Frealtlentlal Aspirants. Mr. Elkins, who is said by his backers to be certain of tho next republican j presidential nomination, has made a great discovery. He declines to discuss tho outlook because at present “there is not a breath of political air stirring,” and it will bo better to wait till something is done before talking. A similar conclusion seems to have been reached by other republican aspirants, for all of them have stopped talking. We do not think their silence is due to the absence of political air, but to the presence of too much silver issue. It is difficult to talk now without saying something about that, and as not a man of them has the courage to give his honest opinion on it, all of them are forced to be silent. They may have discovered also that nothing is so deadly to a presidential aspirant as the blunder of being “too previous.” They all realize this to a certain extent, but when they see one of their number shoving his boom upon the track, all tlie rest of them shove theirs a little too, lest he get the advantage of position. If they will agree to keep quiet for the summer, it will be better for all of them, for the public will not have its attention called so steadily to their moral cowardice.—N. Y. Post.

Tariff reform was finally won in spite of a fierce opposition hacked by the greatest aggregation of capital this country has ever seen and the treachery of some of those who professed to he fighting its cause. lieturning prosperity will intrench it firmly in the confidence and support of the great mass of voters, and tlie day is not far distant when it will have ceased to be a serious issue. Protectionist manufacturers are already reaching out for foreign trade and they will doubtless he among the first to protest against any change which will curtail their opportunities for selling their goods abroad.—Chicago Chronicle. Rcnjamiu Harrison begins to rather wish he had not been so hasty in uncovering Ills scarecrow record on the force bill.—Detroit Free Press.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Every indication of a Tom Reed boom lias disappeared except the occasional yellow belt and yellow streak. —St. Louis Republic. It was very mean to say that Tom Reed has shaved off his mustache in order to let the country see that ho was keeping his mouth shut.—Hoston Herald. The Wilson bill continues to “crush out American industries” by raising wages in a way which is simply exasperating to the McKinleyites.— Winona (Minn.) Herald. Gov. McKinley has at last placed his ear to the ground. In a speech at Freeport, 111., the other day, he actually admitted that the business of tho country has vastly improved under a democratic administration. — Detroit Free ITesis. The political sky, which was so cloudy and threatening a short time ago, is beginning to clear, and the “indications” for democracy in 1890—if w# may look so far ahead—are distinctly favorable to it in the great presidential struggle.—Haltimore Sun. McKinley claims that the return of good times is caused by “the return of the republican party to power.” This remark is inspired by the coolness of the Chicago lake breeze. The republican party has not returned to powwv—Chicago Chronicle.

A Low Tariff IbimhlttH American (inotla to Kilter Foreign Market*. New lines of manufacture are constantly being added to the list that Americans find it profitable to export into England Mention has heretofore been made of the fact that American manufacturers of boots and shoes, carpets and other woolen fabrics, files and rasps, and other imixirtant articles, have found it possible to land their goods in Hritish markets and sell at a profit. Tlie Commercial Union, a trade paper, neutral in politics, calls attention to another line of American manufacturers that preliminary investigation indicates may successfully invade the old country. In its current issue the Union says: “The latest manufacturer to turn his attention to the foreign market is Charles R. Nligh, of Grand Rapids, Mich. The Sligh Furniture Co. of that place is one of tho largest and best known manufactures of furniture in the United States. Air. Sligh has just returned from England where he has been on a tour of investigation and is very confident that a profitable and substantial trade can be established if the American manufacturers will comply with the English ideas of style and finish. It is his purpose to manufac* ure a line of goods especially for the foreign trade, following ideas which he gained abroad.” It is a suggestive fact that it is under a democratic and low tariff that American markets are broadening. While prohibitory duties made it possible for trust combinations of American manufacturers to rob their countrymen without limit there was apparently little effort to find markets abroad. Now they are selling their goods at a profit in England and other European connj tries, and demonstrating the fact that I high wages are often the cheapest

wages.

It is not the wages per week that proves the operative's services dear or cheap, but the amount of work he does in proportion to his wages. Mr. Hlaine demonstrated fourteen years ago, by an absolute comparison of wages and products in English and American factories, that the cost for labor in producing a given number of yards of cotton cloth was less here than in England. As he expressed it: "The higher wages per week of the American operative is more than made up by his longer hours of labor and greater efticiency.” Hut while American cotton mills had the advantage of cheaper labor, paying less per yard than the English, they were protected from the “pauper labor of Europe” by duties running from 30 to 45 per cent., and howled for more whenever opportunity offered. — Quincy (111.)

Herald.

Lot* of Them. Xo free traders? Why, bless your soul, the woods are full of them. The women are all the stiffest kind of free traders. Just go down to any store whose advertisement in the morning papers announces a cut in the prices of some textile, and see the crowd of women uetually struggling to get to that bargain counter.—Minnesota | Democrat

A MUDDLED TEACHER, Statement. That Dn Not H.rnnrll. Thf-m-flelve* to Kmi’Ii Oth«*r. The New York I’ress is adding to the weariness of existence during the hofc weather by publishing each week several yards of dreary protection rubbish written by George Gunton. In a recent issue of the I’ress Mr. Gunton attacks the “English” free trade policy, and in the course of the usual misrepresentation in regard to the effect of free trade in that country, says: “It (free trade) did not give to England the cheaper bread that was promised. English wheat for many years after the repeal of the corn law was just as high as it was before, and to-day the Englishman's loaf costs more than the loaf of any other laborer in the world.” And in the same article he says: •‘It (free trade) substituted a foreign for a home food supply, which drove the hind out of culti-

vation.”

The first question which an intelligent reader of the I’ress would ask is. if Mr. (Sunton’s first statements are true, und wheat remained as high many years after the corn laws as it was before, how did free trade in grain injure the English farmer? And, if the English laborer's loaf costs more than that of any other laborer in the world, why does not the English farmer continue to grow wheat and get the highest price for it? The answer to these questions is very simple. Mr. 1 iunion's statements are not true. It is probable that he thought they were true, for a man who can say, as he did over his signature, that wages are higher in New York and I’hiladelphia because rents are higher in the former city, can believe almost anything. Hut every sensible man and woman knows that after the repeal of the English corn laws the price of wheat declined, while the consumption of wheat greatly increased. The English laborer's loaf, quality for quality, is as cheap as in any other country in the world, anil cheaper than in France, Germany, Austria. Italy, Spain and many other countries. This is a fact beyond dispute, and it is only an instance of the audacity of protectionists that they should attempt to deny it. The chief reason for the decline in wheat production in England has been the competition of cheaper wheat from America, Russia, India and the Argentine Republic. At the same time the exorbitant rents formerly asked by English landlords is partly responsible for the condition of many of the farming districts of England. No farmer could afford to pay the rents demanded, so tlie land was allowed to lie unused, and the clay soils became “soured," requiring a large expenditure for drainage and fertilizers before crops could be profitably grown. Had the land been leased at low rents and kept in cultivation, it would now be in much better condition and would not be lying idle. The only way protection could help matters would lie by increasing the price of wheat, but that increase would not go to the farmer, but into the pockets of the land-owning aristocracy. Americans who are complaining against alien syndicates which hold vast tracts of land in this country will not be likely to join Mr. Gunton in wasting sympathy on English landlords. TRANSPARENT HUMBUGS. Tit© shout of Protectionifit Organs Nothing But u t'onfesstnn. With one accord the high tariff organs are shouting: “We told you so; the republican victory last fall has brought good times and business prosperity. We did it all.” This confession on the part of the protection organs that trade und industry are reviving, and that wages are going up, is very welcome to democrats, who want, first of all, to see an end of the long era of depression caused by MeKinleyism. And they can afford to smile at the efforts of the belated “blue ruin” howlers to catch on to the tail of the prosperity car and stir up a partisan dust while claiming that they are the people who have pulled it along. Hut as the repetition of the statement that | it is republican successes which have [ brought about the present industrial boom, may delude some of the unwary, | it may be worth while to briefly examine their pretensions. According to the protection theory | everything good comes from high ! tariffs, and every bad thing from from free trade. But it is only of late that protectionists have been so bold as to claim that their nostrum works both ! ways; that it makes times bad when democrats are in power, and the threat , to restore it makes them good just as I soon as a republican congress is elected. It is a notorious fact that the j great panic of 1893 was brought on under conditions created by republican legislation. It is equally well known j that the country began to revive from the exhausting effects of high taxation and restricted trade, as soon as ever a measure of tariff reform went into effect. It is to break the force of these damaging facts that the republican papers are taking credit to their party for the happy change in the industrial situation. But it will not work. Their humbug is too transparent. Business is improving because there is a demand for more goods of all kinds. Factories have got rid of their overstock, caused by high tariff stagnation, and are trying to catch up with their orders. Men are making things because other men want them, and have something to give in exchange for them. I’eople do not buy things merely because a congress which lias not 3’et met happens to have a few more republicans than democrats. They buy because they need tilings and can sell their products to the men who produce what they want. Party polities has nothing to do with it, except in so fur as every additional restriction removed from trade, helps make business of all kinds better. It is not tho threat of re-es-tablishing MeKinleyism, but the natural workuig of less hampered industrial forces which has brought about the great improvement in business. And the high tariff, “no trade” organa only make themselves ridiculous by their autics. Bybos W. Holt.